cannot turn blink-cursor-mode off on the console

[Alex Schroeder]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-10-23 on confusibombus
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_CH
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

On the Linux console, (blink-cursor-mode -1) has no effect -- the
cursor keeps on blinking.  This is very annoying because I explicitly
set my cursor to a solid red non-blinking cursor from my login shell.
Entering Emacs resets this, and quitting Emacs leaves my cursor a
blinking thin line.

This is what I use, in case it is of interest.

# If on console, change cursor colour according to
# /usr/src/linux/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt
# Reset using echo -e '\033[?2c'
if [ $TERM = 'linux' -a $SHELL == '/bin/bash' ] ; then
    echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c'
fi

Alex.
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